How I Deal With Fear Of Failure From My Past Experiences

Nigerian actress and filmmaker Funke Akindele has one of the most enviable and illustrious careers in Nollywood.

As an actress, and film producer, she has been able to achieve what many other actors and film producers only ever aspire to. Her movies “Battle on Buka Street” and “Omo Ghetto: The Saga” are the highest grossing Nollywood movies of all times, and she is also one of the most followed Nigerian celebrities on social media.

Funke Akindele is by all accounts a success in Nollywood.

But like with everybody in this world, there are parts of her life where Funke hasn’t found 100% success, and has even failed. In this last year alone, Funke’s political ambition came to a crashing end when she was not voted in as the next deputy governor of Lagos State.

Also last year, Funke’s marriage to her husband JJC Skillz also came to an end. This is enough to get anybody down, but during a new motivational speech she recorded, Funke Akindele addresses how she deals with her fear of failures from past mistakes and how we can too. Here is what Funke Akindele had to say.

Speaking about how she deals with her fear of failures from past mistakes, Funke Akindele said:

FUNKE AKINDELE: Fear is an emotion everybody experiences. It is normal to be afraid, but do not let that fear eat you up. Because if it does, you will not achieve your goals. Don’t let it swallow you up. It’s important to identify what you’re afraid of. Is it negative thoughts or talk into your own life that you have been talking about, thinking about? Or is it from past experiences? Because past experiences really affect me, I will not lie about that. But I talk myself out of it. I read books, I read quotes. I speak to therapists. I psyche myself, I talk to myself to get out of that fear. Because I want to achieve my goals. So if you have to practice this. Fears that come from past experiences drown you, but you must work yourself out of it.

Let me just use myself as an example. Then, when I was attending auditions, I would get nos, nos, nos. I would get home, I will cry, I will want to give up. But my late mum then would just tell me you just have to believe in yourself, good things don’t come easy, practice more, stand in front of the mirror, rehearse, get your monologues right. I do that and here I am today. So you get a lot of nos, and those nos can bring fear into your life. But you still have to practice more. Be better, be a better version of yourself and eventually, the fears will vanish.

Source: Jide Okonjo

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